Terrestrial ecosystem research infrastructures : challenges and opportunities

✍ Scribed by Chabbi, Abad; Loescher, Henry W

Publisher: CRC Press
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 575
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Infrastructures: Challenges and Opportunities reveals how environmental research infrastructures (RIs) provide new valuable insights on ecological processes that cannot be realized by more traditional short-term funding cycles and are integral to understand our changing world. This book bonds the latest state-of-the-science knowledge on environmental RIs, the challenges in creating them, their place in addressing scientific frontiers, and the new perspectives they bear. Each chapter is thoughtfully invested with fresh viewpoints from the environmental RI vantage as the authors explore and explain many topics such as the rationale and challenges in global change, field and modeling platforms, new tools, challenges in data management, distilling information into knowledge, and new developments in large-scale RIs. This work serves an advantageous guide for academics and practitioners alike who aim to deepen their knowledge in the field of science and project management, and logistics operations.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Integrated experimental research infrastructures : a paradigm shift to face an uncertain world and innovate for societal benefit / Abad Chabbi, Henry W. Loescher, Mari R. Tye, and David Hudnut --
National ecological observatory network : beginnings, programmatic and scientific challenges, and ecological forecasting / Henry W. Loescher, Eugene F. Kelly, and Russ Lea --
Field phenotyping: concepts and examples to quantify dynamic plant traits across scales in the field / M. Pilar Cendrero-Mateo [and others] --
Advancing understanding of hydrological and biogeochemical interactions in evolving landscapes through controlled experimentation at the landscape evolution observatory / Aditi Sengupta [and others] --
Quantifying relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem function with experiments / Charles A. Nock, Lander Baeten, Andy Hector, Kris Verheyen Wolfgang W. Weisser and Michael Scherer-Lorenzen --
Frontiers of ecosystem modeling and large-scale experiments / Lifen Jiang, Jiang Jiang, Junyi Liang, Kevin R. Wilcox, Scott L. Collins, Alan K. Knapp, William T. Pockman, Melinda D. Smith and Yiqi Luo --
Large-scale sequence-based information : novel understanding of ecology and novel avenues to test ecological hypotheses / Achim Quaiser, Alexis Dufresne, Sophie Coudouel, Marine Biget and Philippe Vandenkoornhuyse --
Characterisation of biogeochemical processes at the micro-scale : concepts and applications of nanosims / Carsten W. Mueller, Laurent Remusat and Cornelia Rumpel --
Climate warming experiments : selecting the appropriate technique / Hans J. De Boeck and Ivan Nijs --
Remote sensing in the reflective spectrum : a powerful and applied technology for terrestrial ecosystem science / Arnon Karnieli --
A blueprint for a distributed terrestrial ecosystem research infrastructure / Heye Bogena, Harrie-Jan Hendricks Franssen, Carsten Montzka and Harry Vereecken --
Computational challenges in global environmental research infrastructures / Paul Martin, Yin Chen, Alex Hardisty, Keith Jeffery and Zhiming Zhao --
AEKOS : next generation online data and information infrastructure for the ecological science community / David J Turner, Anita K. Smyth, Craig M. Walker and Andrew J. Lowe --
The comprehensive and coordinated approach of geoss to ecosystem challenges / Antonello Provenzale and Stefano Nativi --
Advancing the software systems of environmental knowledge infrastructures --
Markus stocker --
Australia's terrestrial ecosystem research network (TERN), a network of networks approach to the building and maintaining of continental ecosystem research infrastructure / Nikki Thurgate Andrew J. Lowe and Timothy F. Clancy --
Community-driven efforts for joint development of environmental research infrastructures / Ari Asmi, Magdalena Brus and Sanna Sorvari --
Synthesis centres : their relevance to and importance in the anthropocene / Alison Specht --
The role of long-term experiments in understanding ecosystem response to global change / Henry H. Janzen and Benjamin H. Ellert --
The integrated carbon observation system (ICOS) : an infrastructure to monitor the European greenhouse gas balance / Bert Gielen, Ivan A. Jannsens, Maarten Op de Beeck, Denis Loustau, Reinhart Ceulemans, Armin Jordan and Dario Papale.

✦ Subjects

Biotic communities;Research;Ecology;Simulation methods;Environmental monitoring;Methodology;NATURE;Ecology;NATURE;Ecosystems & Habitats;Wilderness;SCIENCE;Environmental Science;SCIENCE;Life Sciences;Ecology

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